MAIL & GUARDIAN: Thought Leader

The mayor of Durban avoids almost all the questions whereas Gwede ducks and dives amid his tiger tales

With Maimane and Trollip gone, it seems the DA trying to turn back the hands of time to 2015 — or even 1652

"I’ve been using a company name and have played with the idea of talking to clients about “us here at the office”... but I’ve realised it’s just me. "

As Picasso said, though he may have had TS Eliot’s words put in his mouth: “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”​

'Over the course of the past five years, I’ve seen people of a variety of ages and vocations suck on their cylinders as if preparing to go underwater'

Without examples of love, young people don’t have the tools to contribute to society

Supporting Caster Semenya means more than embracing her as an athlete

uZoks is stoked about his new school – there’s nothing faux English old school tie about it

The success of the commission will depend, in part, on its terms of reference — in the meantime, criminals must not be allowed to escape justice

Tuesday. January 2. The first working day of the year is upon us. Turns out, not much has changed

It is often forgotten that, in her youth, ANC presidential hopeful Baleka Mbete was a struggle poet.

The state’s response to violence against women and children avoids the real work that’s needed

After the provincial general councils, the leadership race is down to two individuals and a third way appears dead, if it had ever been alive.

The democratic project is fatally wounded without a national plan to teach teachers how to teach reading

'There’s no way the gig will kick off on time. Our host, Nobala — provincial secretary Super Zuma — is one of history’s great Time Bandits'

I kept seeing McRaney’s face, and recalled his manner, while reading The Cowboy Capitalist, but Hearst was a real person.

They tilt the urn. The grey ash that was our brother spills out. Some of it is carried by the wind, writes Paddy Harper.

Report of the Mdluli Detachment to His Excellent Highness Number One — Only Fifty Days to Go till Conference — and edited by a British spy.